Verilyn Titus Poems

I was working with my Grandpa during summer break...
I remember him singing 'Cool Clear Water' as the tobacco we did take...
Then came lunchtime and Grandma would send for us...
There was always a good meal at this time we could trust...
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Over the years growing up we were told 'blood was thicker than water'...
Which usually meant if family, friends, neighbors were out of order..
We were to be that eye, that ear, that hand...
To build them back up in their down to help them once again stand...
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If it was all a bad dream or a nightmare...
Then why did she go to another time and place to not care..
To never return fully the same..
And still you protect her even when it was us she wanted to defame...
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Family is important all the way around...
I pray to God everyday that for my kids a normal love can be found...
Granny and Grandpa are you out there...?
Why do you hold back the love and hinder the care....?
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Among my many questions I have but one daily prayer...
That if our family is in need that I can somehow be there...
Not as the enemy but as a true friend...
To see them through life to the bitter end...
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A Mother is a woman doing a complete solo...
Why it has to be so lonely she may never know...
Always having to believe in people when the time is right...
Only to have those same parties scoff and fight...
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Only Heaven knows what you meant to me?
For while you were blind I was the one who couldn't see....
That there was more to your illness than I could alone change...
Because you chose to uproot everyone in a way to rearrange...
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Every day is the first day of the rest of my life...
Now you ask me to be your wife...
Finally we will be together at last...
Time to think about the future and let go of the past...
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The Holocaust Museum was erected in honor of the 6 million who paid the ultimate price...
In a war against Jews as well others who were made a human sacrifice...
Due to oppression and struggles of that day...
The people of this era had no say...
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Never say 'never' cause karma will find you...
When you least expect it it will show up in what you do...
A lot of people think they can change their fate...
By not adhering to 'never say never' you lock it in too late...
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